Word: policemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels, a policeman caught Marcel, a 14-year-old lad, illegally swimming in a canal. A perspiring judge asked the cop: "Did you see him leave the water?" "Yes, sir." "Did you see him enter the water?" "No, sir." "In that case," ruled the humane judge, "the boy is acquitted, for the regulations say that nobody is allowed to enter the canal to bathe; they don't stipulate that it is unlawful to get out of it." In the Paris zoo, penguins squatted on ice cakes. In Madrid, which justified its climatic reputation ("Nueve meses de invierno y tres...
...crowd of 600,000 (a rival meeting called by leftists boycotting Nehru drew only 1,000). As he ascended the speakers' platform, a loud explosion sounded on the outskirts of the crowd. A bomb, meant for Nehru, had exploded along the route he had just taken, killing one policeman, wounding four other persons...
Before the week was out they were paying attention to big Bill Betger, 26, a left-handed policeman from San Francisco who patrols the city's waterfront at night and golfs on the city's jampacked Harding course by day. It was rare for a southpaw to do so well in tournament play, and he did not get to the finals without incident. In the fourth round Policeman Betger graciously conceded a 12-in. putt to his rival Lewis North of Denver (for a halve), gave the latter's ball a swipe with his putter. Cried North...
...final round, Betger squared off against a fellow San Franciscan, Ken Towns, 20, student at San Mateo Junior College and part-time handyman about Crystal Springs golf course. The policeman's tee shots, true all week, began to go awry and his putter couldn't have been colder if it had been on ice. Towns closed out the match on the 33rd hole...
...evening last week three American soldiers and a German policeman were making the rounds checking boundary markers near Rottenbach, a small village on the border between the Soviet and U.S. zones of Germany. They were fired upon from behind by Russians who had penetrated some 250 yards into the American zone. The U.S. patrol took cover until Lieut. William Linderose, commander of their squadron, reached the scene. The Russians fired again. Lieut. Linderose shot back three times. The Russians retired, leaving behind the dead body of a young comrade...